Name in Japanese A Andres

Andres in Japanese

アンドレス
Katakana
アンドレス
Hiragana
あんどれす
Romaji (Hepburn)
Andoresu

This is the established spelling used for Andres in Japanese dictionaries, books and media.

How Andres sounds in Japanese

Read it one katakana at a time:

A
N
Do
Re
Su

Full reading: Andoresu

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Why Andres is written in katakana

In Japanese, foreign names are written in katakana — the angular script reserved for words borrowed from other languages. So on a form, a name tag, a delivery slip or a news article in Japan, Andres appears as アンドレス. This is the correct and respectful way a non-Japanese name is represented; it is not a kanji "translation". A Japanese reader sees アンドレス and immediately reads it by its sound, Andoresu.

Katakana is a syllabary, so English sounds are fitted to the nearest Japanese syllables and every consonant (except ん) is followed by a vowel. That is why Andres becomes アンドレス rather than a letter-for-letter copy. More than one katakana spelling can be reasonable for the same name, which is why we flag whether a spelling is a long-established one or a natural default.